Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. #DD. Walk good. 28all. Eya.

The Warm-Up: 

“The mouth speaks good intentions while behavior always shows the truth.” ~Thibaut

The Core: 

“Until you heal, it will hold you hostage.” ~Vex King

“In the midst of chaos, there is always opportunity.” ~Sun Tzu, Art of War

“The secrets are deceptively simple: *consistency, *patience.” ~Jack Butcher

“Your career is what you’re paid for. Your calling is what you’re made for.” ~Steve Harvey

“You can read what others write, but only you can integrate it into your mind.” ~Shane Parrish

“We often pray fervently for strength, when what we really need most is wisdom.” ~Bernice King

“It’s not about ‘educated’ vs. ‘uneducated.’ It’s about ‘likes to read’ and ‘doesn’t like to read.’” ~Naval Ravikant

“The fundamental delusion—there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.” ~Naval Ravikant

“The person who you think has everything you ever wanted is as lost as you are and is still trying to figure things out.” ~Orange Book

“Two types of people: 1) Those who think that graduating means you have ‘finished your education.’ 2) Successful people.” ~Orange Book

“And then I realized that I was wasting my time on the planet asking him to make a decision that was simply not in his portfolio. It’s not a negotiation if someone can’t say yes.” ~Rev Dr Sparky, Why You Don’t Take A “No” From Someone Who Can’t Give A “Yes”

“Filtering is a superpower. The people you don’t hang around. The opportunity you don’t accept. The distractions you don’t accept. The relationships you don’t have. The news you don’t read. The content you don’t consume. Saying no is how you turn filtering into action.” ~Shane Parrish

“In Silicon Valley, people talk endlessly about ‘hustle’ and ‘hacking’ your way to success. The thing is that ‘hustle’ looks completely different depending on your circumstances. For most affluent White men, hustle might be pulling an all-nighter in front of a computer trying to get a project done; but for some of the people I know, hustle is sacrificing sleep to work on their side project after they’ve spent ten hours at their day job, come home and fed their kids and put them to bed, or checked on their elderly relatives, or before they start their night shift at their second job.” ~Arlan Hamilton, It’s About Damn Time

“When does it snap into focus? Because we don’t like to be wrong. And more than that, we don’t like to be confused. So when we encounter something new, we pause for a second until we think we get it. Then we lock it in, and it’s ours. But what if we’re wrong? What if our understanding of what we encountered wasn’t useful, accurate or true? Suddenly, there’s a conflict. A conflict between being wrong and being confused. Because the only way to stop being wrong is to be momentarily confused. To jump from one state to another. The magic is in waiting a few beats before you lock it in. Getting comfortable with ‘confused’ is a stepping stone on the path to becoming wise.” ~Seth Godin, Figure and ground

Last Set: 

“ ‘How do I know whether or not I should keep going or give up on this company or this project or this mission?’ My answer is this: If you close your eyes and visualize the world five, ten, twenty years from now and feel okay with the thing you’re working on not existing, then it’s not urgent. But if you can’t imagine the world without it and want it to exist whether you get to enjoy the benefits of it or not, then not only is it important to you, it is your calling.” ~Arlan Hamilton, It’s About Damn Time

Food for Thought: 

So many thoughts on this podcast, but I’ll let yall listen to it first. So many words, but it boils down to talking, out loud, and figuring out who youare…and maybe even why :).

Quotes below from: Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself on Shane Parrish’s, The Knowledge Project #94

“Oftentimes, what that means is saying the uncomfortable thing, but it’s the thing that needs to be said. And I think that there’s a lot of people who appreciate that, because they themselves feel like they’re sometimes caught in positions where they have to be evasive, or if they have to lie in order to cope. If they themselves aren’t in a position to do it, I think they appreciate when others can be. I think that a lot of people have a very positive reaction to that. I think that’s probably what I think people get a sensation, when they interact with me sometimes…”

“I think that money accelerates the point at which you can declare yourself free and feel emancipated. I do think that money, it liberates people, it gives them freedom. But going back to what we were saying before, it doesn’t make you happier.” 

“Focusing on your happiness is part of saying you’re exploring who you are as a person, you’re finding what makes you happy. But the other part of that is, you’re finding out what blind spots are in your weaknesses, right? And you’re finding ways to deal with them. Well, when you translate that knowledge of those things into business, particularly in investing, it’s enormously helpful. It’s a money- making strategy.”